From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,FREEMAIL_FROM autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,915d37e7b8e0ec69 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!news2.google.com!atl-c05.usenetserver.com!news.usenetserver.com!cycny01.gnilink.net!cyclone1.gnilink.net!spamkiller2.gnilink.net!gnilink.net!trndny09.POSTED!0e8a908a!not-for-mail From: Hyman Rosen User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.7 (Windows/20050923) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: and visual library once again References: <1rydnd11YbS6ssbeRVn-rA@comcast.com> In-Reply-To: <1rydnd11YbS6ssbeRVn-rA@comcast.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: Date: Sun, 23 Oct 2005 06:49:55 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 71.249.2.214 X-Complaints-To: abuse@verizon.net X-Trace: trndny09 1130050195 71.249.2.214 (Sun, 23 Oct 2005 02:49:55 EDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 23 Oct 2005 02:49:55 EDT Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:5891 Date: 2005-10-23T06:49:55+00:00 List-Id: tmoran@acm.org wrote: > By those criteria Christopher Columbus would never have been funded. If you can believe his Wikipedia entry, Columbus got his funding based on erroneous estimates of the Earth's size, estimates which were correctly disbelieved by contemporaneous experts. He was also an experienced sailor, navigator, and trader by the time he got his commission. And if there hadn't been a new continent in the way, his entire expedition would have perished. > no technical genius who wasn't also a masterful salesman would ever > get off the ground. That's kind of limiting to progress. No. That simply means that such a technical genius should find a masterful salesman with whom to team up. That's not exactly unheard of.